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Job 30

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Job 30 . 1

1 “But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.TOSKJob 30:1

Job 30 . 2

2 What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?TOSKJob 30:2

Job 30 . 3

3 Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.TOSKJob 30:3

Job 30 . 4

4 They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.TOSKJob 30:4

Job 30 . 5

5 They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,TOSKJob 30:5

Job 30 . 6

6 so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.TOSKJob 30:6

Job 30 . 7

7 They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.TOSKJob 30:7

Job 30 . 8

8 A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.TOSKJob 30:8

Job 30 . 9

9 And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.TOSKJob 30:9

Job 30 . 10

10 They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.TOSKJob 30:10

Job 30 . 11

11 Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.TOSKJob 30:11

Job 30 . 12

12 The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.TOSKJob 30:12

Job 30 . 13

13 They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.TOSKJob 30:13

Job 30 . 14

14 They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.TOSKJob 30:14

Job 30 . 15

15 Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.TOSKJob 30:15

Job 30 . 16

16 And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.TOSKJob 30:16

Job 30 . 17

17 Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.TOSKJob 30:17

Job 30 . 18

18 With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.TOSKJob 30:18

Job 30 . 19

19 He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.TOSKJob 30:19

Job 30 . 20

20 I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.TOSKJob 30:20

Job 30 . 21

21 You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.TOSKJob 30:21

Job 30 . 22

22 You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.TOSKJob 30:22

Job 30 . 23

23 Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.TOSKJob 30:23

Job 30 . 24

24 Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.TOSKJob 30:24

Job 30 . 25

25 Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?TOSKJob 30:25

Job 30 . 26

26 But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.TOSKJob 30:26

Job 30 . 27

27 I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.TOSKJob 30:27

Job 30 . 28

28 I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.TOSKJob 30:28

Job 30 . 29

29 I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.TOSKJob 30:29

Job 30 . 30

30 My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.TOSKJob 30:30

Job 30 . 31

31 My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.TOSKJob 30:31